Roller-bearing



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R. W. HENT.

ROLLER BEARING.

No. 389,653. Patented Sept. 18, 1888.

Inventor:

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UNITE 1 STATES PATENT OFFICE.

REUBEN W. HENT, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

ROLLER-BEARING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 389.653, dated September 18, 1888.

Original application filed April 16, 1887, Serial No. 235,040. Divided and this application filed February 18, 1888. Serial No. ear-520.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, REUBEN W. HENT, a citizen of the United States, residing in the clty and county of San Francisco,and State of California, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Roller-Bearings, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improvement on my roller-bearing shown and described in my application'for patent filed April 16, 1887, Serial No. 235,040, in which a ring bears at its periphery on journals of a series of bearing-rollers bearing directly on the shaft and casing, and at its inner side on journals of a series of separating-rollers bearing neither on the shaft nor casing, but on the bearing-rollers, keeping the latterseparate from each other,

' and by such bearing kept from contact with the shaft. In said roller-bearing, after a little wear of the bearing-rollers, said journals of the separating-rollers are liable to shift from the ring.

The object of my improvement is to prevent said shifting. This object is attained by the addition of a smaller ring-bearing at its periphery on journals of the separatingroilers.

In suchadditional' ring and the peculiar constru ction and combinations of the parts hereinafter set forth consists, essentially, my improvement.- It is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which. 1

Figure l is a transverse section through the center or on the line a: 00, Fig. 2, of a rollerbearing embodying my improvement. Fig. 2 is alongitudinal section through the center or on the line as m, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a side view of a bearing-roller and a separating-roller, Fig. 1, showing the relative positions of the rollers as seen along the plane tangent to both. Fig. 4 is a transversesection through the center of my improved roller-bearing in which theaxes of the separating-rollers are in the planes of the axes of the bearing-rollers. Figs. 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 are views showing means of retaining the several parts, Fig. 1, in their proper longitudinal positions, Figs. 5 and 6 also showing separating-rollers reduced in weight. Fig. 10 is aside view of a short separating-roller, Fig. 4. I

A represents the shaft; B, the bearing-rollers, as wholes; O, the separating-rollers, as

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wholes; D, the casing, and E and F the rings. The rings are hollow cylinders coaxial with the shaft and with each other and of different diameters, the ring F being the smaller.

Each bearing-roller B consists of two journals, B, bearing directly on the shaft and casing, and of a smaller journal, B located between and coaxial with the journals B and rotating in contact with the periphery of the ring E.

The separating rollers G,keeping the rollers B separate from each other, consist each of two journals, C, bearing only on the journals B, each journal G on and between two journals, B, and of a smaller journal, 0, located between and coaxial with t-hejournals G and rotating between and in contact with the inner side of the ring E and the periphery of the ring F. The ringE is interposed between and bears on the journals B at its periphery and the journals 0 at its inner side. The smaller ring,F, bears at its peripheryon the journals O ,and,forming rolling bearings for these journals, keeps the latter in contact with the ring E and the rollers O from-contact with the shaft independently of any bearing of the journals 0 on the journals B, thus preserving the circularity and diameter of the orbit of the rollers G and its concentricity with the ring E whatever the wear of the journals B.

The arrow-heads indicate the relative directions,when the casing is stationary, of the axial rotations of the shaft and rollers, and of the rings caused by the axial rotations of the journals B and O The ring F being rotated by the journals 0 without sliding friction, receiving none of the pressure of the load, and being required only to resist the inward pressure of the journals G which cannot exceed the weight of the rollers O, the ring andjournals O" incur no substantial wear and retain substantially their original dimensions whatever the wear of the other parts. The employment of this ring per- Inits the location of the axes of the rollers C in the planes of the axes of the rollers B, as shown in Fig. 4:, or even still nearer to the shaft. By placing the axes of the rollers O in said planes and thus diminishing the necessary size (weight) and orbit (velocity) of these rollers, as well as by shortening the journals C, as shown in Figs. 5, 6, and 10, and making them hollow, (lighter,) their centrifugal force is greatly reduced, and all outward pressure of thejournals C on the ring E, arising from the pressure of the journals B on thejournals O,is avoided. If the velocity of the rollersO in their orbit is very great,their axes are preferably placed still a little nearer to the shaft, thus greatly relieving thejournals C and the ring E of the pressure of the centrifugal force of the journals G, which is then principally upon thejournals B. Such location, however, is attended with a slight inward pressure of thejournals G" on the ring F,arising from the pressure of the journals B on thejournals C, unless counteracted by the centrifugal force of the journals 0', and possibly also with some substantial wear of the latter unless made hollow to reduce their weight,(centrifugal force.)

Obviously the centrifugal force of the rollers C may be great enough to keep the journals 0 in contact with the ring E. Therefore, during the continuance of such force the ring F will have no function to perform.

Thering F is preferably of the same length as the ring E.

The journals 0 may be much shorter than thejournals B, as shown in Figs. 5, 6, and 10.

When the rollers O are retained in their proper longitudinal positions by the ring E, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, the inner ends of both journals, B and G,are preferably beveled to avoid sliding friction. If they are not so retained and the journals B are a little longer than the journals C or the rings, as shown in Figs. 5 and 6, then sliding friction may be avoided by beveling the inner ends of the journals C only.

All the journals, B and C, may be formed separate from and securely and rigidly attached to thejournals B and G or all or any of them, (except of course the few necessarily removable to permit the insertion between the shaft and easing of the rollers and rings in their proper relative positious,)may be formed integral with the journals B and C respectivcly.

It is evident that instead of a single ring F bearing on the journals 0, two ringsF may bear on journals of the rollers 0, located at the outer ends of the journals 0, and that if journals 0 and B are located at the outer ends of thejournals G and B, instead of two rings F bearing on such journals G a single ring F may bear on journals of the rollers C, located between the inner ends of the journals 0. Therefore I do not intend to limit my claims to one ring F, nor to any particular number of rings F, nor to any particular location longitudinal]? on the rollers C of the rings F and the journals on which they bear, nor to journals of the rollers C, rotating in contact with both the rings E and F.

I claim as my invention- 1. Ina roller-bearing, the co1nbination,with a series of bearing-rollers bearing directly on the shaft and easing, a series of separatingrollers bearing neither on the shaft nor casing, but on the bearing-rollers, and a ring hearing at its periphery on journals of the bearingrollers and at its inner side on journals of the separating-rollers, of asmaller ring bearing at its periphery on journals of the separatingrollers, substantially as set forth.

2. In a roller-bearing, the combinatiomwith the series of bearingrollers 13, consisting each of two journals, B, bearing directly on the shaft A and easing D, and of ajournal, B",the series of separating-rollers C,consisling each of twojournals, G, bearing only on thejournals B, and of ajournal, G", and the ring E, bearing at its periphery on the journals B, and at its inner side on thejournals G of the ring F, adapted to hear at its periphery on the jou rnals 0 substantially as shown and described, and for the purposes set forth.

3. In a roller-bearing, the combination of a series of beai'ingrollers bearing directly on the shaft and casing and having journals adapted to rotate in contact with the periphery of a ring coaxial with the shaft, and a series of separating rollers bearing neither on the shaft nor casing, but on the bearing-rollers, and havingjournals adapted to rotate in contact with the inner side ofsaid ring and in contact with the periphery of a smaller ring, also coaxial with the shaft,allconstructcd and arranged substantially as set forth.

4. In a roller-bearing, the combination of the series of bearing-rollers B, consisting each of two journals, B, bearing directly on the shaft A and easing D, and of a journal, B, adapted to rotate in contact with the periphery of the ring E, coaxial with the shaft, and the series of separating rollers 0, consisting each of two journals, 0, bearing only on the journals B, and of a journal, 0, adapted to rotate between and in contact with the inner side of said ring E, and the periphery of the smaller ring, F, also coaxial with the shaft, all constructed and arranged substantially as shown and described, and for the purposes set forth.

5. In aroller-bearing, the combination,with two rings coaxial with the shaft and of different diameters, of a series of bearing-rollers bearing directly on the shaft and casing and having journals adapted to rotate in contact with the periphery of the larger of said rings, and a series of separating-rollers bearing neither on the shaft nor casing, but on the bearing-rollers, and keeping the latter separate from each other, and having journals adapted to rotate in contact with the inner side of said larger ring and in contact with the peripheryof the smaller ofsaid rings, all constructed and arranged substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

6. In a roller-bearing,the combination,with the rings E and F coaxial with the shaft A, of the series of bearing-rollers 13, consisting each of two journals, B, bearing directly on the shaft and casing, and of a journal, B", located between the journals B and adapted to rotate in contact with the periphery of the ring E, and the series of separating-rollers C, keeping the rollers B separate from each other, and consisting each of two journals, 0, bearing only on the journals B, each journal 0 on and between two journals, B, and of a journal, 0 located between the journals 0 and adapted to rotate between and in contact with the inner side ofthe ring E and the periphery of the ring F, all constructed and arranged sub stantially as shown and described, and for the purposes set forth.

7. In a rollerbearingthe combination,witl1- in the casing, of the shaft-,two rings coaxial with the shaft and of different diameters, a series of bearing-rollers bearing directly on the shaft and casing and having journals adapted to rotate in contact with the periphery of the larger of said rings, and a series of separating-rollers bearing neither on the shaft nor casing, but on the bearing-rollers, and keeping the latter separate from each other, and having journals adapted to rotate in contact with the inner side of said larger ring and in contact with the periphery of the smaller of said rings, keeping the separating-rollers from contact with the shaft, allconstructed, arranged, and operating substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

8. In a roller-bearing,the combination,within the casing D, of the shaft A, the series of bearing-rollers B, consisting each of two journals, B, bearing directly on the shaft and casing, and a journal, B, located between the journals B and adapted to rotate in contact with the periphery of the ring E coaxial with the shaft, the series of separatingrollers O, keeping the rollers B separate from each oth ery on thejournals B and at its inner side on,

the journals C and the said ring F adapted to bear at its periphery on the journals 0 and keeping the rollers 0 from contact with the shaft, all constructed, arranged, and operating substantially as shown and described, and for the purposes set forth.

9. A roller-bearing comprising the shaft A, the'casing D, the series of bearing-rollers B, consisting each of two journals, B bearing directly on the shaft and casing, and a journal, B located between the journals B, and rotating in cont-act with the periphery of the ring E coaxial with the shaft, the series of separating-rollers 0, consisting each of two journals, 0, bearing only on thejournals B, each journal 0 on and between two journals, B, and a journal 0, located between the journals 0' and rotating between and in contact with the inner side of said ring E and the periphery of the ring F coaxial with the shaft, the said ring E hearing at its periphery on the journals B" and at its inner side on the journals 0", and the said ring F bearing atits periphery on the journals 0 all constructed, arranged, combined, and adapted to operate substantially as shown and described, and for the purposes set forth.

REUBEN W. HENT.

WVitnesses:

EDWARD WELLINGTON BLANEY, HENRY WILLIAM BRADLEY,J r. 

